Since last Saturday, a chemical fire has been burning at a plastics warehouse just outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia. What is still unknown is which materials caught fire, when the fire will be totally extinguished, or what the potential health effects will be on residents of the town. In the meantime, West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice has declared a state of emergency and requested federal aid for firefighting and environmental tests. 1
Nearly a decade ago, two volunteer firefighters warned that the warehouse was at risk of a major fire.
The Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department has warned the 44,000 Parkersburg residents to avoid contact with the smoke and stay indoors until the smell from the fire is no longer detectable. And on Friday, the West Virginia DEP announced that the EPA would be sending a plane with the ability to take high-resolution images (so they can identify spots that are still burning).
Some media outlets have reported that the warehouse belongs to Dupont but DuPont said it has no “direct affiliation with the warehouse”2but that “the warehouse was storing plastic materials, some of which were purchased from DuPont” by IEI. 3
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